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Google bid farewell to China

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The attackers have succeeded in penetrating elaborate computer security systems and obtaining crucial corporate data and software source codes, though Google said it did not itself suffer losses of that kind.

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Google would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and will shut down its operations in the China altogether, citing assaults from hackers on its computer systems.
(Reuters/Jason Lee)

The attackers have succeeded in penetrating elaborate computer security systems and obtaining crucial corporate data and software source codes, though Google said it did not itself suffer losses of that kind.
(Reuters/Jason Lee)

Google's announcement that it may quit China over censorship and hacking drew applause, warnings and bouquets from dissidents and Internet activists with few seeing much chance of the wary government giving ground. (Reuters/Jason Lee)

Chinese Google users presents flowers to the Google's Shanghai office in Shanghai, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Google's threat to pull out of China over censorship is a rare display of defiance in a system where foreign companies have long accepted intrusive controls to gain access to a huge and growing market. (AP Photo) (AP)